Court system of Canada

without authorization, and those individuals can become subject to being held in detention until immigration officials either grant a visa or deport the individual to their country of departure. Immigration detention serves a clear purpose, but in Canada currently, there isn’t a designated maximum amount of time one could be detained. The federal government is facing opposition to its policies on immigration…

In this report for a non-governmental organization, Mclemore uses personal stories and examples from the USA to portray mandatory minimum sentencing as a lousy policy that should not be enacted in Canada. Mclemore highlights the negative aspects of such a policy that would take Canada in the wrong direction with its policy on crime. Her examples of these ‘tough on crime’ policies failing in the USA are especially convincing as it sheds light on the practice contributing negatively in past…

between the federal and provincial government due to Canada being a federal state. Both levels of government shares the obligation and jurisdiction over particular sectors of law and divisions such as; health care, corrections and many more. The Queen of England is the head of the government and the Governor General acts as her representative in Canada and works alongside the Prime Minister, which leaves Canada as a constitutional monarchy. When Canada became a British colony, confederation,…

Using Enbridge Northern gateway pipeline as a framework, explore how pipeline governance in Canada impacts the sovereignty of the Indigenous communities There is a growing concession of the need to consider the impact of large scale industrial development of resources extraction on indigenous communities in Canada, especially, projects which may have direct environmental impact on these communities, specifically, the tar sand industry. The aboriginal rights are protected by the Canadian…

Calderwood SDS 231R Social Policy October 20, 2015 Introduction The Canada Employment Insurance Agency is a sizable functioning governmental Institution that is mandated to monitor, assess, and administer the Employment Insurance Program. Many organizations exist within the Canada Employment Insurance Agency. In this report, I plan to outline and explain the function of the Canada Employment Insurance Commission. The report will outline the description of the organization…

October 29, 1929-1939 and affected countries worldwide, two examples of these countries being the United States and Canada. Despite being affected similarly by the Great Depression, the United States and Canada went about solving their problems differently due to their leaders’ opposite perspectives; Canada’s Prime Minister, Richard Bedford Bennett, tried to respect the free enterprise system, by not allowing the government to involve, contrary, the United States’ President, Franklin D.…

circumstances related to the young person (Youth Criminal Justice Act, 2003, s38 (3)). With respect to this section, one will evaluate how the court system would delegate sentences to youths if the court decided to give a youth sentence. The first charge one will analyze in regards to the movie is theft under $5000 for stealing a hot dog. In the Criminal Code of Canada under section 334 paragraph (b) subparagraph (i) and (ii) it had stated that “except where otherwise provided by law, every…

protection or support and more likely to be in need of surveillance and control” (Chan, p.261). An example of a situation that occurred between the Aboriginal community and the criminal justice system was the incident with Frank Paul. According to Razack (as stated in Chan, p.260), Frank Paul was picked up by police for being drunk in public. He was eventually released but was brought back to the station for a second time, where the sergeant refused to keep him. Frank was left in an alleyway,…

General Difference Between Successful and Unsuccessful Mental Disorder Defense Despite many characteristics mentioned in the above, the fact that most individuals found NCRMD have had previous contact with the psychiatric system or history records with the criminal justice system are very interesting to acknowledge. When compared with individuals with successful the NCRMD defense and unsuccessful NCRMD defense, individuals with NCRMD found more involvement with the psychiatric…

Federal Government introduced the First Nations Policing Program as an effort to help with the overrepresentation of Aboriginals in the Canadian Justice System. This program allows the establishment of Aboriginal administered police services in Canada on Aboriginal territories. The Aboriginal police are funded by Public Safety Canada. Public Safety Canada mentions that while Aboriginals face much higher crime rates do to their socio-economic status, poorer education and poorer health outcomes…